User Experience

Expanding career pathways for students from historically underrepresented communities.
Upgrading the user experience of rural broadband consumers.
Improving an online authoring tool used to create customized marketing materials.
Using the Japanese origins of Agile methodology to empower employees.
Teaching the basics of creating user-friendly interfaces.
Learning how and why to design for people with less than perfect vision.
An accessible, effective framework for reading instruction.

STEM Careers

Teaching the data science skills that employers value most.
Building intensive digital learning experiences using the Canvas LMS platform.
Preparing students for financial technology careers.
Learning how to protect systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks.
Teaching students to define the why, when, and what of product development.
Learning software development life cycle methodologies.
Making STEM-related careers accessible and engaging for students.

Finance

Delivering real-time financial market coverage and analysis.
Delivering tactical and strategic portfolio guidance and goals-based advice.
Teaching financial literacy to college-bound students through a scholarship contest.
The Pet Card could be Chase's most popular credit card.

Math

Rethinking the visual presentation of scientifically-proven math curriculum.
Helping students become independent mathematical thinkers.
Developing software that gets young students excited about learning math.
Blending instruction and technology to help students become stronger and more confident with math.
Helping students at all levels of mathematical proficiency catch up and keep up.

Literacy

Helping all students read at or beyond developmental expectations.
Comprehensive support and engaging strategies to enhance foundational early literacy skills.
Developing language acquisition skills through commonly-used idioms and expressions.
Helping students become more proficient readers through differentiated small–group instruction.
Teaching students to recognize and identify elements of music.
Nurturing a lifelong love of reading.
Using data to individualize and differentiate reading instruction.

History

250 inspirational stories of African American achievement preserved for generations to come.
Exploring the role of music in America’s cultural heritage.
Teaching the culture and traditions of Texas in Benchmark Education's Spot On Social Studies series.
Working to make classrooms—and the world—unsafe for bigotry and intolerance.
Using the “People’s Document” to inspire and empower students to participate in civic life—and VOTE!

Health

Improving the employee healthcare experience while decreasing costs for employers.
Bringing new solutions and medications to patients in need.
Creating quality oral healthcare products — since 1873.
Using data, technology and creativity to build brands.
Introducing a cure for yeast infections that’s easier to swallow.
Teaching Florida students about the dangers of tobacco use.
Looney Tunes characters help families pick more nutritious food for their children.
Developing a visual identity system for a premium tea brand.

How do you diversify tech hiring?

2U helps companies meet the rising demand for tech talent by partnering with enterprise clients to prepare students for careers in the technology industry. To create more opportunities for Black students, 2U partnered with Netflix to create the Netflix Virtual HBCU Boot Camp for UX/UI Design.

The 16-week immersive program was designed to provide technical skills development and professional work experience to students from historically underrepresented groups.

Netflix Plus 2U

As a member of the learning design team, I synthesized and translated complex content and data into visualizations and stories that helped students acquire the most in-demand, industry-relevant skills.

My responsibilities included:

  • creating instructional content supports for the learning design platform
  • interpreting complex technical concepts and systems
  • establishing pacing and flow of instruction
  • employing basic design principles (hierarchy, emphasis, balance and alignment, contrast, repetition, proportion, movement, variety, and white space) to create visually appealing and functional designs that aid comprehension

Curriculum

UX/ UI Bootcamp

Students were introduced to the:

  • breadth of UX design (and why it matters)
  • importance (and ubiquity) of UX design
  • various roles and responsibilities within the UX industry

They were encouraged to consider in which role(s) they might see themselves and received suggestions for navigating their own UX career path.

Netflix UX Curriculum
Netflix UX / UI Roles
Netflix Dieter Rams quote

Design System

Netflix

Netflix shared their design system and user interface design principles for students to use in their project work. 

Netflix UX Design System